Portrait of Stendhal (Henri Beyle) by Louis Ducis, 1835

“What is really beautiful must always be true.”

— STENDHAL, Armance Chapter 6, 1827
Portrait von Louis Ducis, 1835


About the Armance Collection
Stendhal’s first novel, Armance, is a romance shaped by silence
and restraint.
This collection reflects that same quiet tension: the strength of form,
the softness of silence, and the beauty of what remains unsaid.